Reiko. Reiko wake up!" Kuri shook her sister.
Though the rabid, vampiric look had faded suddenly from her face, Reiko had been unconscious since Jake had interrupted them before.
Kuri was painfully aware that she could no longer hear Reiko's thoughts and feelings.
Kuri closed her eyes.
What the hell do they mean...can't imprint on Kuri?!...she can't already have an imprint...doesn't make sense...!
The thoughts she was hearing were jumbled up, angry and worried.
Kuri looked down at Reiko, tears in her eyes.
"Your imprint with her shattered because Jacob imprinted on you." Mana was standing at the door. "Sam is explaining to Jacob. I tried to warn you."
"Shut up Mana." Kuri said. "If you had done something to help. You, me, Grams—three priestesses—our powers would have been strong enough to help her!"
"She turned into a leech!" Mana snarled.
"SHE'S YOUR SISTER!" Kuri growled back. "But you...you've always been better than the rest of us, haven't you Mana. I'm not letting her die because of me!"
"She is not your concern anymore. If they come for her, she might live. If not...there's no hope for her. She needs a leech, not a priestess." Mana turned and walked away.
Kuri tried to have a premonition, but she couldn't make it work. Please come for her, Jakeward.
Xxx
So Kuri took her now human looking sister back up to the house and put her to bed.
Was Reiko still a priestess? She didn't look like the others...and the crescent on her forehead was filled in now, though it was red.
She heard tapping at her window.
Jake...
At the same moment she was alerted to the sound of a particularly fancy dirtbike pulling up the driveway.
Jakeward...
"Jakeward!" Reiko was sitting straight up in bed.
Her forehead mark had changed again; around the crescent were vines and flowers.
She had Changed.
Reiko was a High Priestess.
High Priestess to the Vampires.